Albert Einstein Quotes

Disarmament offers the only effective way to bring militarism under control.

Our purpose [is] to invite the present-day civilization to cast aside the staggering burden of armament.

There is an urgent need for disarmament of all kinds, but especially nuclear disarmament.

Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race.

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.

Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

In the spirit of commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we will strive to achieve real progress in disarmament and arms control.

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

Women have a great responsibility...to try...to prevent another war. I hope...that we will be able to use this great atomic energy...for peaceful work.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

If you want to reduce nuclear weapons, get rid of bad judges, eliminate stupid laws…, you have my number.

In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream? To answer, yes, is to despair for the future of mankind.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people.

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.